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Porcupine Tree biography PORCUPINE TREE are incredibly hard to describe because their music doesn't fit into any one genre. I like the description on the back of the album "Signify" (one of my all time favorites). It says "Porcupine Tree have managed to defy genres and blend together numerous ambient, rock and avant-garde styles to create a musical landscape that is both refreshing and compulsively seductive". The great post-GONG revival which gave birth to OZRIC TENTACLES now brings us PORCUPINE TREE. The hypnotic rhythms, spacy synthesizers, glissando guitar and crazy voices which made the style successful are all contained here. The band started as a solo project of singer-songwriter-guitarist STEVEN WILSON who, back in the early nineties, released a series of increasingly spaced-out ambient excursions. PT is one of the most innovative bands in prog today combining intense musicianship, unconventional composition and superb studio production. They are unquestionably one of the UK's most inspired and inventive rock groups. The bands 4th studio album from '96. "Signify" saw Porcupine Tree truly gell as a studio band producing a blend of psychedelia, heavy rock, melancholic pop, kraut rock, and wild experimentation that brought the best out of each band member. Their latest two albums ("Stupid Dream" and "Lightbulb Sun") move the band further away from their influences and into their own catagory, by which other bands eventually will be compared. But if you are a fan of progressive, thoughtful, briliantly executed and flawlessly produced music, you will do no better than PT. PORCUPINE TREE's eighth studio album, "Deadwing", was released in March 2005 by Lava Records / Warner Music. Less rock-oriented than the previous album "In Absentia", "Deadwing" is partially based on a "surreal ghost story" screenplay written by Steven and sometime PORCUPINE TREE / NO-MAN art collaborator Mike Bennion. The 60-minute, nine-track album contains material varying from short airplay-friendly songs such as 'Shallow' to lengthier pieces lik... PORCUPINE TREE are incredibly hard to describe because their music doesn't fit into any one genre. I like the description on the back of the album "Signify" (one of my all time favorites). It says "Porcupine Tree have managed to defy genres and blend together numerous ambient, rock and avant-garde styles to create a musical landscape that is both refreshing and compulsively seductive". The great post-GONG revival which gave birth to OZRIC TENTACLES now brings us PORCUPINE TREE. The hypnotic rhythms, spacy synthesizers, glissando guitar and crazy voices which made the style successful are all contained here. The band started as a solo project of singer-songwriter-guitarist STEVEN WILSON who, back in the early nineties, released a series of increasingly spaced-out ambient excursions. PT is one of the most innovative bands in prog today combining intense musicianship, unconventional composition and superb studio production. They are unquestionably one of the UK's most inspired and inventive rock groups. The bands 4th studio album from '96. "Signify" saw Porcupine Tree truly gell as a studio band producing a blend of psychedelia, heavy rock, melancholic pop, kraut rock, and wild experimentation that brought the best out of each band member. Their latest two albums ("Stupid Dream" and "Lightbulb Sun") move the band further away from their influences and into their own catagory, by which other bands eventually will be compared. But if you are a fan of progressive, thoughtful, briliantly executed and flawlessly produced music, you will do no better than PT. PORCUPINE TREE's eighth studio album, "Deadwing", was released in March 2005 by Lava Records / Warner Music. Less rock-oriented than the previous album "In Absentia", "Deadwing" is partially based on a "surreal ghost story" screenplay written by Steven and sometime PORCUPINE TREE / NO-MAN art collaborator Mike Bennion. The 60-minute, nine-track album contains material varying from short airplay-friendly songs such as 'Shallow' to lengthier pieces like the 10-minute-plus 'Arriving Somewhere But Not Here'. Most of the music was written by Steven but the album features the largest amount of full-band compositions since "Signify" in 1997. The album also features guest appearances by Adrian Belew (KING CRIMSON) and Mikael �kerfeldt (OPETH). In 2007 the band scored its biggest chart success to date with "Fear Of A Blank Planet". Featuring contributions from Alex Lifeson and Robert Fripp it made the album charts in both the UK and USA and saw them play to larger and larger crowds on the subsequent world tour. This uplift in fortunes was due in part to the band signing to Roadrunner Records who really got behind the band. In 2009 the band released "The Incident" their most ambitious work to date and also their most successful, charting highly in the UK, USA and across Europe. See also:
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PORCUPINE TREE Reviews
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DVD/Video, 2010
4.65 | 592 ratings
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Anesthetize
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by Mellotron Storm
Prog Reviewer
This is a review for the audio cds only. When this DVD was released in 2010 the first 5,000 copies came with the double disc audio cds but when they were gone they were gone. This was also the way they did the 2006 DVD "Arriving Somewhere..." but in both cases they have just recently re-released the DVD with the double audio discs once again. I'm just way more of an audio person as I rarely have watched the many DVDs that have come with cds I've ordered over the years.
The packaging is top notch of course but I have to admit I prefer the "Atlanta" recording which was the North American leg of the "Fear Of A Blank Planet" tour. "Anesthetize" is from the European leg with a different track listing. I saw the Toronto show and man what made it special was hearing "A Smart Kid", "Sound Of Muzak", "Open Car", "Blackest Eyes" and "Even Less" and none of these are on "Anesthetize". Still this is an excellent live recording that I really enjoyed spinning all last week.
The three tracks that stood out for me for various reasons were the 17 1/2 minute title track. What a ride this is, very proggy. I was surprised how much I dug "Prodigal" from "In Absentia" but it's such a feel good tune and this track is the only one not on the DVD. Both "Dark matter" and "Sever" tie for third place for similar reasons. Old school PT done extremely well in this live setting. I noticed there are some twisted guitar solos on this album and Barbieri is a master at creating atmosphere. Highly recommended whether your into the audio or the visual.
Studio Album, 2005
4.12 | 2113 ratings
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Deadwing
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by VianaProghead
Prog Reviewer
Review N' 517
'Deadwing' is the eighth studio album of Porcupine Tree and was released in 2005. The lyrics on the album are based on a screenplay written by Steven Wilson and Mike Bennion and are essentially a ghost story. Wilson had expressed the intention to eventually have this film script made into a movie. He stated that David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick were his major influences for the film script. However, the complete concept and story has never been entirely announced by Wilson. Meanwhile, it seems the project has failed. So, we just have to please us only with the songs on the album.
The album produced two singles: 'Shallow' and 'Lazarus'. 'Shallow' also appeared on the film 'Four Brothers', an American vigilante film directed by John Singleton, released in 2005. It can be heard as background music in a bar. The album also produced three music videos: 'Lazarus', 'The Start Of Something Beautiful' and 'Glass Arm Shattering'.
The line up on the album is Steven Wilson (vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, hammered dulcimer and bass guitar), Richard Barbieri (keyboards and synthesizers), Colin Edwin (bass guitar) and Gavin Harrison (drums and percussion). The album also includes the collaboration with King Crimson's Adrian Below guitarist, who plays the guitar solos on 'Deadwing' and 'Halo', and Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt, who adds vocal harmonies on 'Deadwing', 'Lazarus' and 'Arriving Somewhere But Not Here', where he also plays the second guitar solo.
'Deadwing' has nine tracks. All songs were written and composed by Steven Wilson, except 'Start Of Something Beautiful' written by Wilson and Harrison, and 'Halo' and 'Glass Harm Shattering' written by all four band's members. The first track is the title track 'Deadwing'. It opens the album and sets the setting for the remainder of the album. This is one of the heavier tracks on the album, but the song has numerous breakdowns. Synthesizers are also added to add to the musical atmosphere of the track. It also includes several different guitar solos. The second track 'Shallow' was the US single. The band really rock out here, much in the vein of Led Zeppelin. The main riff is probably the catchiest on the all album. This is a very enjoyable track especially for those who can appreciate progressive rock bands who can really rock out. The third track 'Lazarus' is the song that most casual listeners know, showing the diversity the bad can cover. The piano takes the central stage for the song with Wilson's angelic voice singing beautifully. The lyrics are very beautiful and melancholic that seems to be about a dead mother talking to her son. The fourth track 'Halo' has some of Wilson's best singing on the album. This is a song with great musical atmosphere, a good bass line, a catchy chorus and an excellent guitar work by Adrian Bellow. It's one of the simpler tracks on the album, but still is very addictive and atractive. The fifth track 'Arriving Somewhere But Not Here' is a classic Porcupine Tree track. It's a classic progressive space rock song with lots of musical atmosphere, lots of harmony vocals and lots of interesting musical effects. This is the best song on the album and one of the best Porcupine Tree tracks. The sixth track 'Mellotron Scratch' is apparently a song written about the Mellotron, the instrument that is perhaps most closely associated with progressive music. But curiously and strangely, Porcupine Tree doesn't have the use of any Mellotron here. However, this is a very good track with beautiful vocal harmonies. The seventh track 'Open Car' sounds like it could have been a hit single, with a fast rhythm and a beautiful musical break down. The vocals seamlessly flow perfectly with the guitar riff and there's an almost and truly uncountable number tempo and style changes in this relatively short song. The eighth track 'Start Of Something Beautiful' has some wonderful bass lines, special effects and a simple musical atmosphere. I like the upbeat rock feel of the chorus and the lyrics here make an excellent balance between the softer melancholic moments and the heavier ones. The ninth track 'Glass Arm Shattering' represents a nice ending to the album. It goes back to the days of 'The Sky Moves Sideways' and 'Signify' with spacey Floydian slide guitar and monotonous and melancholic vocal harmonies. This is a very nice and enjoyable song but isn't probably the best closing track of the band ever.
Conclusion: 'Deadwing' predecessor, the 2002's 'In Absentia', was an album made up of some gorgeous, sprawling masterpieces of tracks. So, on paper, 'In Absentia' is a better album than 'Deadwing' is. It has fewer weak tracks, and its best musical moments are probably higher picks than any seen here. 'In Absentia' is also, for many of Porcupine Tree fans, their best studio album. And yet, I can't stop feeling that 'Deadwing' is, in some aspects, a better album. Primarily, because of the aforementioned flow that ensures that it's such an engaging list. So, being 'Deadwing' a better album than 'In Absentia' or not, I think it become to be an irrelevant thing, really. In reality, the only thing I would say is that Wilson and his companions have done it again. 'Deadwing' gets better and better with every spin and I truly recommend it for everyone. It also proves again why Porcupine Tree is perhaps the best British prog band of our time.
Prog is my Ferrari. Jem Godfrey (Frost*)
Studio Album, 2009
3.68 | 1599 ratings
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The Incident
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by The Crow
Prog Reviewer
Following up on a masterpiece like "Fear of a Blank Planet" was not an easy task!
And for this, Porcupine Tree decided to create concept album much more varied in terms of tessituras and environments, but also with a more irregular compositional quality, which made it a great disappointment for many of us.
The incredible hook and stunning songs of "Deadwing" and "Fear of a Blank Plantet" were gone! What the hell?
However, the production is still spectacular, and above all, Gavin Harrison's work on drums is absolutely amazing again. For that alone, "The Incident" is already worth listening to, despite being one of Porcupine Tree's weakest efforts.
Hopefully the next "Closure/Continuation" will be able to bring us back the best years of the band!
Best Tracks: The Blind House (great riff, evocative chorus and a great and furious mellotron towards the end), Time Flies (the star song of the album, and also the longest), Octane Twisted (great instrumental work, especially on the drums) and Remember Me Lover (the only song that can compete in terms of quality with their previous album)
My Rating: ***
Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 2022
4.42 | 15 ratings
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Of the New Day
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by ComaEcliptic
Of the New Day was released on the 8th of March 2022. This single has a bunch of really interesting odd times, complicated patterns, and well produced instruments. Of the New Day has a bunch of Crosby Stills and Nash and Pink Floyd-esc moments that bring in that very In Absentia like return to form. The heavier bits of the track have bring back vibes of The Incident, once again proving that this is a Porcupine Tree song through and through. The album comes out of the 24th of June, so I can't wait to see how good this album is.
Studio Album, 2007
4.27 | 2694 ratings
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Fear Of A Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by Nhelv
XBOX IS MY GOD.
In all honesty, I like this album. I think it's good, but that's it. Musically you can expect a lot of Dream Theater and Growl-less Opeth here, combined with alternative rock like Radiohead. With that said I simply can't call it a masterpiece (even if some moments in it are deserving of that title) because there's a good amount of rather safe and average songs.
So, the good? The opener and title track, Fear Of A Blank Planet, is pretty solid and opens the album well, even if its lyrics are absolutely awful (read the first sentence of this review). It keeps a fast pace all the way through, and around the middle it enters a cool instrumental breakdown. The song ends very well. Sentimental is a very edgy song with a very good chorus, I like it.
The piece of resistance in this album and the only reason why it has a rating as high as 4.27 is Anesthetize which is for sure Porcupine Tree's best track to date. This song is undoubtedly brilliant. It builds up very well and has some pretty heavy sections around the middle. Many great and memorable melodies. Last five minutes are very hypnotic and chill, they end the song very well.
A minor good track would be Way Out Of Here. It has a nice chorus and verse, however I do feel like it drags on for too long. The rest of the album is very average though, with My Ashes being way too long and uninteresting, and Sleep Together suffering from the same issues.
This is a good album and I recommend it, however I simply can't raise the rating just because of one track. In general it's good but that's it. In Absentia is much better in my opinion. Three Stars!
Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 2021
4.33 | 62 ratings
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Harridan
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by LearsFool
Prog Reviewer
It's almost like they never left. Maybe it has something to do with being a Deadwing era cut brought back and updated like a once forgotten outtake from Bob Pollard's suitcase, but "Harridan" is the triumphant return of 2000's style PT in ways I'm sure no one expected. Much of the song is driven by a frenetic bassline that is at once impressive yet perplexing with the reformed PT being a trio sans Colin Edwin; is Wilson showing ever greater mastery of bass guitar, or use of effects petals to make one of his six strings into a spectacular analogue? As the track develops, both Wilson on guitar and Barbieri on the keys and synths switch between displays of power on the choruses, and quiet questioning and contemplation through the verses and bridges, following their mid-aughts formula to new heights. Harrison's drumwork remains as brilliant as ever across the cut as well. As to the lyrics, their fractured portraits of pain, loss, and cold death make for some of Wilson's best and most open-ended. They are quite befitting their original context of the almost-concept-album Deadwing in countless ways.
As for my final thoughts: considering how I among many other listeners have sought comparisons to Swilson's solo The Future Bites for the track (not to mention the aesthetics of the artwork), "Harridan" makes me think that TFB - however partially flawed - fits in more with PT than even I originally thought. Certainly any TFB elements in "Harridan" work spectacularly. And with the greatness and context of "Harridan", I am assured and excited for Closure/Continuation, which may yet be alike, and as wonderful if not more so, than Recordings.
Boxset/Compilation, 2020
4.15 | 14 ratings
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The Sound of No One Listening (2020 Remaster)
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer
Delerium have fairly regularly reissued and repackaged the material Porcupine Tree put out on the label - spanning the period from On the Sunday of Life to Signify and the Coma Divine live album - but then again, that's only logical; Porcupine Tree are probably the label's biggest success story, after all. (The situation is comparable to Fire Records' regular repackaging of Pulp's material put out through them.)
Still, the most recent Delerium Years boxed set (there have been several) seems to have been the definitive rerelease, providing not just all the albums from the era (and most of the EPs and other limited releases on top of that), but also yielding this compilation of off-cuts, edits, and other odds and sods from the era. For those who enjoy the space rock sound of early Porcupine Tree, there's plenty here to like, spanning the quirky psychedelic approach of their earliest work and the more serious material of the Signify era. Including two versions of Disappear would seem self-indulgent, but they at least differ enough in approach to justify this.
I wouldn't put it on the level of their best releases of this era - Up the Downstair, The Sky Moves Sideways, Signify, and Coma Divine - but if you love everything else that Porcupine Tree did in this period, you'll probably dig this, and if you're a fan of space rock with updated 1990s production values who hasn't heard Porcupine Tree's work from this era, what are you waiting for?
Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 2001
3.02 | 244 ratings
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Metanoia
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer
The Signify period, which saw Porcupine Tree gelling further as a band (having been more of a Steven Wilson solo project prior to The Sky Moves Sideways), certainly yielded plenty of material beyond the studio album itself. As well as the Coma Divine live album from the tour and the Insignificance collection of studio off-cuts, it also provided us with Metanoia, a collection of live-in-the studio improvised jam sessions which the band indulged in.
Some of the material here would be picked up and used as the basis of more polished tracks - Intermediate Jesus on the Signify album had its backing track derived from an edit of one of these improvisations, for example - but most of this is unique to Metanoia, and all of it is offered in a rather different context.
If you like the more song-oriented side of Porcupine Tree, you won't find that here: what you will find is material remarkably like the sort of spacey, jazzy jams which the early 1970s krautrock scene was fond of turning out. If you like the spacier, less focused parts of On the Sunday of Life or Voyage 34, you're in the right sort of territory, though the Edwin/Maitland rhythm section adds a certain amount of drive to these jams not present in those earlier works which helps ensure that the release isn't just going over old ground.
Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 1997
3.37 | 101 ratings
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Insignificance
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer
In Porcupine Tree's discography, Insignificance is to Signify as Staircase Infinities is to Up the Downstair and Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape is to On the Sunday of Life: a companion piece compiling various songs which didn't make the cut for the parent album.
That said, the approach is somewhat different this time. Compared to Staircase Infinities and Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape, you get less entirely original songs and improvisations here and more in the way of alternate takes and demos of material which were incorporated into Signify.
There's still some entirely new stuff here, like the two takes on Wake As Gun or the funk-tinged Neural Rust, and both these unique songs and the alternate versions of Signify material tend towards a somewhat more mellow and psychedelic-tinged take on the overall approach of Signify than the harder-edged version we got on the main album. If you like Porcupine Tree's pre-Signify material, then you may well enjoy this; if you think Porcupine Tree didn't get good until Signify, you might find this inferior. And if you don't actually like Signify itself, why are you even considering this?
Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 2021
4.33 | 62 ratings
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Harridan
Porcupine Tree Heavy Prog
Review by Argentinfonico
After 12 years, Porcupine Tree surprises with a level connected to their great era, back at the beginning of the 21st century. This song has a lot of In Absentia in it! It's good to know that they are preparing an album that is up to the task and that can give us all a glimpse. That aggressive bass definitely gives something to talk about at the beginning. The song takes a 5/4 turn to show off the excellent percussion of the master Gavin Harrison and the quality suspense provided by the keyboards. This song promises that the whole piece will be memorable.
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